Special for Infobae from The video posted online Monday and verified by The New York Times appears to show a group of Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian military personnel outside a village west of Kiev.
“He's still alive. Record these rascals. Look, he's still alive. He's panting,” says a man as he sees a Russian soldier wearing his jacket over his head, apparently injured, who is still breathing. A soldier then shoots the man twice. After the man continues to move, the soldier shoots him again and stops.
At least three other apparently Russian soldiers, including one with an obvious head wound with his hands tied behind his back, may be killed near the victim. They all wear camouflage, and three have on their arms the white bands that Russian troops usually wear. There's equipment scattered around them and blood stains near each other's head.
The soldiers are lying on the road a few meters away from a BMD-2, an infantry fighting vehicle used by Russian airborne units. Some seem to have had their jackets, shoes or helmets removed. Above, on the road, you can see other destroyed vehicles.
The video was shot on a road north of the village of Dmytrivka, about 11 kilometers southwest of Bucha, where the discovery of hundreds of bodies in civilian clothes has in recent days provoked allegations that Russian troops killed civilians in their withdrawal.
The killings appear to have been the result of a Ukrainian ambush to a Russian column that occurred around March 30, when Russian troops withdrew from small towns west of Kiev that have been the scene of intense fighting for weeks. On April 2, freelance journalist Oz Katerji tweeted videos and images of the destroyed column and wrote that soldiers told him that the Russians had been ambushed 48 hours earlier.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine also tweeted about the destruction of the Russian convoy, calling it “precise work” of Ukrainian forces. “These aren't even human,” says one Ukrainian soldier in the video as he walks through the wrecked vehicles, adding that two Russian lieutenants had been taken prisoner.
Ukrainian soldiers are identifiable by patches with their flag and blue armbands and repeat several times “glory to Ukraine”. Their unity is unclear, but in the video of the massacre, one of the men refers to some of them as “boys from Belgravia”, probably referring to a housing estate called Belgravia located a few hundred meters from the incident.
A Ukrainian news agency that published a video of the aftermath of the March 30 ambush described it as the work of the “Georgian Legion”, a paramilitary unit of Georgian volunteers that was formed to fight on behalf of Ukraine in 2014 .
Evan Hill is a journalist on the Visual Investigations team, which combines traditional reporting with advanced digital forensics techniques.
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